mealiness
(ˈmiːlɪnɪs)
[f. mealy a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being mealy.
| 1609 C. Butler Fem. Mon. (1634) 127 They [teredines] offend the Bees also with their mealiness, as the Snails do with their sliminess. 1776 Withering Brit. Plants (1796) IV. 69 Leaves covered with a kind of ash-coloured mealiness. 1820 L. Hunt Indicator No. 37 (1822) I. 294 There was a sort of exquisite silver clearness and soft mealiness in her utterance of these verses. 1844 Stephens Bk. Farm II. 666 The mealiness consists of a layer of mucilage immediately under the skin, covering the starch or farina. 1876 Abney Instr. Photogr. (ed. 3) 125 The cause of mealiness or ‘measles’ in the print. 1886 Besant Childr. Gibeon ii. ii, To bring out the full mealiness of a potatoe. |